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(No Model.)

H. 0. WEEDEN. WATER CLOSET BOWL.

No. 416,139. Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IIENRY O. \VEEDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE VVEEDEN SANITARY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF RIIODE ISLAND.

WATER-CLOSET BOWL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,139, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed April 15, 1889. Serial No. 307,256. (No model.)

To all whom it'may concern.- tical-top bowl, as shown in the drawings, is

Be it known that I, HENRY O. \VEEDEN, of used. If, however, a square-top bowl were Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of used, such as are now upon the market to a Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, limited extent, the shelf would obviously be 5 have invented certain new and useful Imof square form to correspond with the top of provements in ater-Closet Bowls, of which the bowl, but its interior contour would still the following is a specification. be elliptical, that being the customary shape.

The object of my invention is to produce In the case of an earthenware bowl, as shown,

an improvement in the construction of the the shelf is preferably made of earthenware 0 seats of water-closet bowls, whereby they and integral with the bowl.

will be better adapted to meet certain de- The shelf B, as is obvious, would of itself mands of the public, and I have represented serve asa seat, but would still possess the it in the accompanying drawings as embodied disadvantage of being hard and unyielding. in a convenient form. To overcome this I provide, in connection I 5 In the drawings, Figure l is a view in vertiwith the shelf B, a superimposed yielding seat cal section of a closet-bowl embodying my or cushion, as shown, adapted to rest upon present improvement, and Fig. 2 a plan view and be supported by the shelf B, this lastof the same structure, but with the seatrenamed seat or cushion being made, as stated, moved. flexible or soft, fitting the device for use by 20 As is well known, it has heretofore been invalids and in other cases where a seat of the custom to provide, in connection with wahard material would be objectionable. ter-closet bowls, a perforated seat placed To secure the flexible seat in place upon above the bowl and usually hinged to and the shelf B, I preferably form a flange or 7 supported upon the wooden frame-work or groove in the shelf, as shown at O, and pro- 25 casing with which the bowl is surrounded. vide upon the under surface of the flexible Of late years, however, it has been deemed seat or cushion a-tongue adapted to enter the desirable to dispense with a surrounding groove, thus holding the seat in place upon wooden casing and to allow the wooden seatthe shelf. A convenient form for the groove to rest upon the top of the bowl itself. Sevand tongue is represented at Fig. 1, one wall 30 eral objections exist in practice to the use of of the groove being made overhanging, so as a wooden seat, particularly a hinged one. to insure a tighter clinging of the flexible pad For example, when used in connection with in place upon the shelf. an earthenware bowl, such as is now gener- I am aware that arubber packing hashereally used, the wooden seat is likely to be tofore been inserted between the top of the 3 5 dropped accidentally upon the bowl, thereby closet-bowl and the under side of the seat to breaking or marring it. Furthermore, in the form a gas-tight joint. It will be observed, case of invalids, particularly women, the unhowever, that such a device is quite distinct yielding character of the wooden seat has from my invention, an important feature of been found to be injurious. To remedy these which is the flexible or yielding seatsurface 0 defect-s is the particular object of my present as distinct from one made of non-flexible ma invention. terial with the advantages set forth.

I will now describe my invention as applied I claimto a closet-bowl of the earthenware wash-out 1. The combination, with a water-closet 5 class, that form of bowl being now in extenbowl, of a seat-supporting shelf connected to 45 sive use. the inside of the rim of the bowl, and a seat In applying my invention I dispense enor cushion of flexible material adapted to rest tirely with a hinged or folding seat and form upon and be supported by the said shelf, subthe supporting part of the seat by adding to stantially as and for the purpose set forth. the upper part of the bowl within the rim A 2. In combination, a water-closet bowl, a

50 thereof a shelf, as shown at B. This shelf seat-supporting shelf B, located within the preferably corresponds in itsinterior contour rim of the bowl at its upper part, and a seat with the contour of the bowl when an ellipor cushion of flexible material, the said shelf and seat being connected by a tongue-andgroove connection, as set forth, whereby the seat is held in place upon the shelf.

3. In combination, with a water-closet bowl, 5 a shelf B, connected thereto at the upper part of the bowl and within the rim thereof, a groove in the upper side of said shelf, a seat or cushion of flexible material adapted to rest upon and be supported by the said shelf IO and having a flange or tongue formed on its under side and adapted to enter the groove in the upper face of the shelf, whereby the said flexible seat is held in place upon the shelf, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub- I 5 scribed my name this 1st day of April, A. D. 1889.

HENRY C. IVEEDEN.

Vitnesses:

JOHN H. TAYLOR, ELLEN B. TOMLINSON. 

